NEOPLATONISM
Neoplatonism
Neoplatonism, as it has been called since the 19th century, is a school of mystical philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century, based on the teachings of Plato and earlier Platonists. Its earliest contributors were Plotinus and his teacher Ammonius Saccas. Neoplatonism focused on the spiritual and cosmological aspects of Platonic thought, synthesizing Platonism with Egyptian and Jewish theology. However, Neoplatonists would have considered themselves simply Platonists, and the modern distinction is due to the perception that their philosophy contained sufficiently unique interpretations of Plato to make it substantially different from what Plato wrote and believed.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Neoplatonism
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